Mailscanner runs <DEFUNCT>

[Julian Field]

At 04:37 14/05/2004, you wrote:
>MailScanner 4.30 is always running at least 1 or more defunct processes.
>We dont see this issue very often in 4.29 installed on our other servers.
>Whats causing Mailscanner to <defunct> all the time.
>
>If i set the child processes to 2 in MailScanner.conf i see 2 defunct
>processes and 3 running normally. When i select 2 why are their 5
>processes anyway?

Don't worry about the defunct ones, they are regularly harvested. It is
faster to harvest them all at once and not one at a time. You will find the
process ids of the defunct processes should keep changing, as they are
"new" defunct processes.

This is quite normal, and it makes MailScanner go noticeably quicker.

>
>root     21783  0.1  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    07:26   0:00
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>root     21806  0.2  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    07:26   0:00
>[MailScanner <defunct>]
>root     19542  0.0  1.3 15812 14280 ?       S    07:23   0:00
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /e
>root     19543  1.2  2.9 31288 29708 ?       S    07:23   0:02
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /e
>root     19563  1.5  2.9 31292 29716 ?       S    07:23   0:03
>/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner /e
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